- Why Is Lacan So Popular? : r CriticalTheory - Reddit
Zizek's Lacan is one who uses German Idealism as a philosophical resource to rethink the subject in broadly post-Kantian and Hegelian terms, but, as the comment above states, Lacan also mobilised and reinterpreted lot of contemporary theory too
- Critiques of Lacan? : r CriticalTheory - Reddit
The Lacan on which criticisms of his work (including D G's) are frequently based is the Lacan of unconscious as structured like a language, the phallic inscription of lack, etc , much of which is demoted, reformulated or superseded by the end of his work
- Is there ever a point when you understand Lacan? : r . . . - Reddit
Is there ever a point when you "understand" Lacan? I've been into psychoanalysis for years, and I've read a lot of books about Lacan I worked through Lacan's own writings many times before I've read some of the Ecrits, like half of Seminar III, some of Seminar II, some of Seminar XX, etc
- Where to get started with Lacan? : r CriticalTheory - Reddit
Lacan was deeply allergic to the idea that he might one day be systematized, and his ideas thereby robbed of their transgressive potential His obscurantism is a calculated strategy to avoid this kind of systematization, and as such I think one benefits from going into the first (and second, and third, etc) encounter without assistance
- Why is Lacan so Heavily Disliked by Academia? : r lacan - Reddit
Lacan set himself in many ways against the university and its way of establishing dogmatic teaching He constantly bucked tradition, broke long-standing practices, and refused to bow to the establishment He was a rebel who charted his own path back to Freud and then beyond
- What does Lacan mean when he talks about The Real?
Lacan isn't talking about how we conceptualize things, at least as one normally construes that expression, but rather he's talking about psychoanalysis
- Is Lacans psychoanalytic work largely seen as pseudo-science . . . - Reddit
Is Lacan's psychoanalytic work largely seen as pseudo-science today? Well, pseudo-science suggests it fails to be science, whereas it's not clear that science is the right frame for thinking of it in the first place
- Freud vs. Lacan : r lacan - Reddit
Generally, Lacan interpretted Freud through the lense of structural linguistics For example, the Oedipus complex under Freud was a legitimate desire for the mother and "hate" for the father Where as with Lacan, the Oedipus complex was more about the "entrance" into the symbolic order (Mother and Father are symbolic roles, not actual people)
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